Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time to pump the brakes and “pace the frontier” of bleeding-edge AI development. Their motivations are suspect, but leaders at major AI companies — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, an
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: Under the hood, each thread is a Claude Code cloud session working on its own branch and copy of the repo. The coordinator keeps work organized, but if any
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns?
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting and other changes in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping turn saved inspiration into purchases.
The refurbished Apple TV 4K with its voice remote. | Image: The Verge Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lower than the new retail price. The upgraded model, with 128GB of storage and an Ethernet port, is also discounted to $209 at Apple, a $40 discount fro
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
Apple is changing its App Tracking Transparency prompts in parts of Europe after competition regulators said the system favored Apple over third-party apps, giving developers more flexibility over how they ask users for tracking consent.
When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making and is now a big part of Xbox's ongoing game preservation efforts. Ahead of the launch of the Xbox One in 2013, Microsoft made a key decision to uniquely identify discs. Sourc